On 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10…
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will make an amazing landing on the Red Planet on 6 August! MSL…
Earth is often known as the blue planet, because it is the only world in our Solar System…
The Hubble space telescope has captured this amazing image of a giant gas cloud lit up by a…
New images from Mars Express show a mountain range we haven’t seen before. The mountains are in an…
If you didn’t manage to see any shooting stars this summer don’t worry, here’s your chance to see…
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has recently been completed after many weeks of…
Moons are natural objects that orbit planets. Scientists usually refer to them as planetary satellites (human-made satellites are…
Black holes are the strangest objects in the Universe. A black hole does not have a surface, like…
In the summer of 2000, four identical Cluster spacecraft were launched into highly elongated polar orbits which took…
What would happen if an aspiring villain, a scientist who’s a little too old and deaf, and a…
By building LEGO® models of spacecraft, both scientists and students are able to have a better understanding of…
More than 50 years after the Space Age began, only two countries have soft-landed spacecraft on the Moon…
On 8 July, a fairly bright star, known as Delta Ophiuchi, will disappear from the night sky. However,…
One year ago, ESA’s Herschel space observatory was launched on a mission to explore the infrared Universe. Now…
Rosetta’s final Earth swingby
The Herschel spacecraft shows us images of new stars forming inside the Rosette cloud.
The Moon is our nearest neighbour in space – a ‘mere’ 384,000 km away. Nine manned missions and…
Would you like to see your own space artwork on the ESA Kids site? Here’s your chance! Every…
5½ years after lift off from French Guiana, ESA’s Rosetta comet chaser has returned home for a brief,…
Is there life on Mars? Certainly, no one expects to find intelligent Martians, like those seen in the…
The winners of the competition are: Pasqual Ortega Hernández, Rueben Willis, Savitri Thurairatnam, Beatriz Gómez Sala, Rafael y…
One of the longest space missions ever made came to an end on 30 June 2009 when the…
The most powerful infrared space observatory ever built has opened its electronic eyes for the first time and…
Excitement is building around the world as the clock counts down to the launch of two powerful new…
Two of the most ambitious missions ever attempted to unveil the secrets of the darkest, coldest and oldest…
Astronomers around the world are eagerly awaiting the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying two groundbreaking ESA…
India has reached the Moon! Its Chandrayaan-1 (“Lunar Craft” 1) was captured by the Moon’s gravity on 8…
In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars. They were named…
The first images of Asteroid Steins taken by Rosetta’s instruments were derived from raw data and have delivered…
